Contract

NHSE884 - Elswick Health Centre APMS

  • NHS North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board

F03: Contract award notice

Notice identifier: 2025/S 000-043788

Procurement identifier (OCID): ocds-h6vhtk-04ee62 (view related notices)

Published 29 July 2025, 11:36am



Section one: Contracting authority

one.1) Name and addresses

NHS North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board

Pemberton House, Colima Avenue, Sunderland Enterprise Park

Sunderland

SR5 3XB

Email

necsu.neprocurement@nhs.net

Country

United Kingdom

Region code

UKC - North East (England)

NHS Organisation Data Service

QHM

Internet address(es)

Main address

https://northeastnorthcumbria.nhs.uk/

Buyer's address

https://health-family.force.com/s/Welcome

one.4) Type of the contracting authority

Body governed by public law

one.5) Main activity

Health


Section two: Object

two.1) Scope of the procurement

two.1.1) Title

NHSE884 - Elswick Health Centre APMS

Reference number

NHSE884

two.1.2) Main CPV code

  • 85100000 - Health services

two.1.3) Type of contract

Services

two.1.4) Short description

This is an INTENTION TO AWARD Notice following The Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023 - Competitive Process.

North of England Commissioning Support (NECS) is a commissioning support service working for and on behalf of NHS North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board (ICB) (NENC ICB) (the Relevant Authority), who have undertaken a competition process to commission an Alternative Provider Medical Service (APMS) to be delivered for patients of Elswick Health Centre, Meldon Street, Newcastle.

two.1.6) Information about lots

This contract is divided into lots: No

two.1.7) Total value of the procurement (excluding VAT)

Value excluding VAT: £9,640,287

two.2) Description

two.2.2) Additional CPV code(s)

  • 85100000 - Health services

two.2.3) Place of performance

NUTS codes
  • UKC2 - Northumberland and Tyne and Wear
Main site or place of performance

Elswick Health Centre, Meldon Street, Newcastle.

two.2.4) Description of the procurement

This is an INTENTION TO AWARD Notice following The Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023 - Competitive Process.

This is an intention to award notice to advise that the relevant authority intends to award a contract under a competitive process under the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) regulations 2023.

For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Procurement Regulations 2024 (Procurement Act 2023) and/ or Public Contracts Regulations 2015 do not apply to this award.

Project Title - Elswick Health Centre APMS

The aim of the service is to deliver a GP led primary medical care service for patients of Elswick Health Centre.

The successful provider must support the provision of safe, high

quality clinical services.

Contract Start Date: 01 November 2025

Contract End Date: 31 October 2034

The contract term is for an initial period of 7 years, with an option to extend for a further 2 years at the discretion of the Relevant Authority and subject to satisfactory contractual and financial performance.

This is an existing service and incumbent provider.

two.2.5) Award criteria

Quality criterion - Name: Key Criteria 1: Quality & Innovation / Weighting: 45

Quality criterion - Name: Key Criteria 2: Integration, Collaboration & Service Sustainability / Weighting: 30

Quality criterion - Name: Key Criteria 3: Improving Access, Reducing Health Inequalities & Facilitating Choice / Weighting: 10

Quality criterion - Name: Key Criteria 4: Social Value / Weighting: 10

Quality criterion - Name: Key Criteria 5: Value (Price) / Weighting: 5

Price - Weighting: 5

two.2.11) Information about options

Options: Yes

Description of options

The contract is for 7 years, with effect from 01 November 2025, with the option to extend for a further 2 years, subject to satisfactory financial and contractual performance and at the discretion of the Relevant Authority.


Section four. Procedure

four.1) Description

four.1.1) Type of procedure

Open procedure

four.1.8) Information about the Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)

The procurement is covered by the Government Procurement Agreement: Yes

four.2) Administrative information

four.2.1) Previous publication concerning this procedure

Notice number: 2025/S 000-009864


Section five. Award of contract

A contract/lot is awarded: Yes

five.2) Award of contract

five.2.1) Date of conclusion of the contract

29 July 2025

five.2.2) Information about tenders

Number of tenders received: 2

Number of tenders received by electronic means: 2

The contract has been awarded to a group of economic operators: No

five.2.3) Name and address of the contractor

Elswick Family Health Limited

Newcastle upon Tyne

Country

United Kingdom

NUTS code
  • UKC22 - Tyneside
Companies House

14708485

The contractor is an SME

Yes

five.2.4) Information on value of contract/lot (excluding VAT)

Total value of the contract/lot: £9,640,287


Section six. Complementary information

six.3) Additional information

This is a Provider Selection Regime (PSR) intention to award notice.

The awarding of this contract is subject to the Health Care Services (Provider Selection Regime) Regulations 2023.

For the avoidance of doubt, the provisions of the Procurement Regulations 2024 (Procurement Act 2023) and/ or Public Contracts Regulations 2015 do not apply to this award.

This contract has not yet formally been awarded; this notice serves as an intention to award under the PSR.

A contract will not be awarded until after the 9th working day following standstill.

The standstill period begins on the day after the publication of this notice.

Representations by providers must be made to the relevant authority by midnight on Monday 11 August 2025.

Any representations should be sent via the Atamis messaging portal and/or via email to necsu.neprocurement@nhs.net

The individual(s) making the award decision are:

The Newcastle Gateshead Local Delivery Team Senior Leadership Team of NHS North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board;

The Place Sub-Committee (Newcastle) of NHS North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board

The Contract and Procurement sub-committee of NHS North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board;

The Executive Committee of NHS North East and North Cumbria Integrated Care Board; and

NHSE Regional Panel.

The evaluation panel was made up of the following representatives:

Clinical Lead;

Head of Primary Care;

Involvement Lead;

Clinical Quality Lead;

Medicines Optimisation Pharmacist;

Senior Medicines Optimisation Pharmacist;

Strategic Head of Primary Care;

Programme Manager;

Business Support Officer;

Project Officer;

Programme Lead;

Corporate Governance Manager;

Primary Care Commissioning Manager; and

Lead IT Delivery Manager.

There were no declared potential conflicts of interest of individuals making the award decision.

Conflicts of interest were completed by all involved in the process and no potential conflicts were identified.

The scoring criteria for the Basic Selection Criteria Questions were either evaluated as Pass/Fail or For Information.

The Relevant Authority considered the five key criteria against the service requirements and determined the relative importance of each, as outlined below and detailed within in the provider response documentation.

Quality & Innovation - 45%

Value (price) - 5%

Integration, Collaboration & Service Sustainability - 30%

Improving Access, Reducing Health Inequalities & Facilitating Choice - 10%

Social Value - 10%

The successful provider was selected based on offering the most advantageous provider response by scoring the highest combined score for quality (key criteria) and finance, evaluated against the published evaluation criteria as detailed within the provider response documentation. As a result, they are the recommended provider and have been awarded the contract, subject to final agreement.

six.4) Procedures for review

six.4.1) Review body

NHS North East and North Cumbria ICB

Pemberton House, Colima Avenue

Sunderland

SR5 3XB

Country

United Kingdom